Annnnnd…we’re back to Stan’s original intro. It’s the morning of the blackout, and things are picking up.
Charlie’s having a bad dream. She hasn’t forgotten about the fact that today is the day her father’s going to die.
Simon’s still holding Janis. He wants revenge, and he wants Janis to help him. The problem is that beyond Hellinger, he doesn’t know who they are. Janis wants to take him to the FBI, but he knows that that’ll never work. He strikes a deal: if she gets him to NLAP, he’ll turn himself in. She wants to know why he started working for them in the first place; he was just a stupid kid.
Dem and Mark are enjoying their morning coffee before heading back into the office after a “marathon night.” Dem thinks he’s got a full morning with Digital Forensics, but Mark hands him a CD of 15 covers of “Islands in the Stream.” Even though it’s D-Day, he thinks Dem should go to Hawaii with Zoey and be alive. When Dem hesitates, Mark thinks it’s just cold feet. Well, there are feet involved…little baby ones. Mark tries to make Dem feel better by telling him that marrying Liv was the best thing he ever did. Yeah, that’s not really helping.
Liv’s just agreed to let Charlie stay home from school when Lloyd calls. He wants to talk about their pre-destined booty call, but Liv’s not in the mood. Why doesn’t she just not meet up with him? She’s already destroyed the lingerie, so why not just say, “I’ve got a headache”? Instead, she tells Lloyd she’ll call him back.
Vogel shows Mark Hellinger’s financial records. Turns out, he was using the FFs to determine the outcomes of particular events. Then, he’d put the money down on sure things. Kind of brilliant, if you think about it. Stan reports that the NSA has been working on Hellinger for eight hours. He’s only going to speak to Mark.
Mark wants to know if Hellinger caused the blackout. Yes, he did, but there’s a bigger problem they need to address: Mark’s going to die tonight. After all, Hellinger’s seen about a dozen different version of the day. All of them are consistent in one thing: Mark’s going to lose control, and then he’ll lose everything. At the end, he’ll be killed in his office. Hellinger draws him a picture, and mark notices something that looks like ‘F Wire.’ He takes it and goes.
Mark brings the picture to Lloyd. They talk about a Tachyon Constant, a kind of Holy Grail in the math/physics world. Mark shows him the part of the picture where Hellinger wrote “Tachyon wipe.” Lloyd doesn’t think that’s possible.
Nicole shows up at Bryce’s house. He’s been drawing her, not Keiko. He wants to make plans for tonight, but she finds the Keiko pictures. Is he sure he doesn’t want to find her? The real versus the imagined who lives half a world away? Not a chance.
Yeah…about that. Downtown, Keiko is getting the news that if she doesn’t come up with her bond money, she’ll be stuck at the Detention Center until her hearing. That’s up to a year from now. Her lawyer reminds her to keep believing. Keiko looks at her tattoo.
Dem arrives at the airport. Zoey’s thrilled to see him, but he wants to talk first. He tells her about the baby and Janis and his role in the baby-making. She’s not thrilled anymore. In fact, he shouldn’t even go to Hawaii. The thing is, she’s not really upset about the fact he slept with his friend to create a child, it was because he did it because he was convinced he was going to die. After all the things Zoey did because she was convinced he was going to LIVE, she’s not happy to hear that.
Aaron carries Tracy into the tent from his FF. She’s not doing well.
Hellinger’s financial records show a Tachyon Warehouse. That must be what he meant by Tachyon Wipe…the data from the computer systems. Mark wants to take a team in, but Stan and Vogel think it’s a trap.
Aaron attacks the Jericho guy they captured when they took Tracy back. He wants to know what they were doing with his daughter. Was it because she saw them killing an entire village? Jericho dude tells him that they didn’t kill the village. As it turns out, it was an experiment. The entire village was passed out within a on 1km radius. Jericho needed to know why Tracy was awake. Jericho dude admits it was a test run for the blackout.
Janis and Simon are leaving J’s apartment when Dem shows up. He’s sad and wants to see his baby-mama. The boys pull guns on each other. Janis explains the plan to get him to NLAP, and Dem’s not thrilled. Janis steps between them. Dem says no, but Janis wrestles away the gun, and Dem arrests him. She’s going to regret the decision for the rest of her life.
Mark and Vogel are talking to the agents they sent to the warehouse. As they listen, the team is ambushed. Mark’s about to lose it on Hellinger, but Stan decides to take it instead. Charlie shows up just then. Liv apologizes for bringing her, but she needed to see Mark. Mark looks like he wants to kiss Liv, but he doesn’t even touch her. Mark asks Charlie to not be afraid…Daddy will always love her. When Mark is scared, he tells himself that “Charlie loves him,” and it makes him strong too.
Dem loads Simon into the car. He wants to know if Janis is coming with, but she tells him no and that he shouldn’t lie about where he found Simon. He starts to drive away, and then comes back. If he hadn’t found her, would she have gone through with the NLAP plan? Yes. Then, she should probably get in.
Lloyd and Dylan are going through the calculations. Dylan’s just being annoying about the papers. He moves all the papers with numbers into a single stack and tells his father that “It all has to be in the right place.” Lloyd interprets that to mean that he HAS to be at Mark and Liv’s post-coital to figure it all out. Um, sure, like it’s reflected in Liv’s thigh as he looks in the mirror? Lloyd, clearly ready for a little hanky panky, tells Dylan to grab his coat.
Mark keeps asking Hellinger when the next blackout is. Hellinger keeps insisting that Mark’s going to die. Hellinger taunts him about the board, and Mark starts to tick. When he mentions Charlie, though, Mark loses it. It takes two agents to pull him off Hellinger. Vogel remains in the room, and tells Hellinger to clean himself up. Stan throws Mark out of the building.
Bryce and Nicole are packing up the car. She wants to know why he’s so excited about it. Is it because his future didn’t happen? She confesses what she knows about Keiko, and he is pissed because she let Keiko stay in jail.
Keiko is called to the front of the center. Bryce isn’t there to collect her, but her mother is. She wants Keiko back on a plane at eleven tonight. Keiko has dinner plans at 10.
Tracy’s heart stops. Despite CPR, she dies. Aaron is devastated.
Mark’s at a crazy street party full of people celebrating that their visions have/haven’t come true. It’s like New Orleans on a Friday night or most of the world on New Year’s Eve. This guy walks up to Mark and tells him that in his vision, he’d just quit drinking. He’d like to make that happen. Can Mark take this flask for him? He tries to say no, but the guy vanishes. Mark takes his first drink in years.
Dem and Janis drive to NLAP. Janis wants to know why Dem changed his mind. He was pissed at her for working for the CIA. He felt like he lost his best friend. He also tells her that he told Zoey about the baby. Then, Janis feels the baby kick.
Mark’s at a bar. Some guy points out the string on his wrist from Charlie. The guy’s really annoying. When he tells Mark that “he’s already lost,” Mark takes him out with a punch and lands himself in jail.
Lloyd calls Liv from Liv’s house. He wants to “do the numbers.” She’s not there because she’s decided to take a little weekend trip. Dylan figures out that they’re not coming back.
Bryce does go to the immigration center, but Keiko’s already at the airport.
